Same here almost exactly.

Although I left after it seemed like he was just having a tremendously hard time coping with the new expectations that came with having a lot of users. At some point he seemed happy to do the admin stuff - responding to reports, etc - but started to become paralyzed on everything else. But also was unable to hand things over to someone else.

I get it, but it wasn't where I wanted to be anymore.

If it was today I might have moved to mbin instead (which exists for many of the same reasons) but app support on Lemmy was the big draw.